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by icefox 12y ago
My favorite "this should be free" has to do with when Qt was released under the GPL. It always bothered me when people selling software would complain that they couldn't use the GPL version of Qt. At some level understood t
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A connection machine in your pocket(benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com)
3 points by icefox 12y ago|0 comments
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by icefox 12y ago
So if you make a mistake at Amazon your job is on the line? Wouldn't that incentive developers to be extremely risk adverse and play politics? Is it a "mistake" to get assigned to a project that is doomed? And what about
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by icefox 12y ago
Agreed, I would be more inclined to watch videos if they were highly edited. If you want to watch a MOOC on linear algebra the videos you will find are little more than a camcorder stuck in the corner of a classroom and dumped online. For
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by icefox 12y ago
If it makes you feel any better out there is a really good issue tracking system that has a bolted on git repository system that actively is rejecting improvements for their repo stuff. If GitHub didn't have issues people would still b
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by icefox 12y ago
Another way to put it would be I will happily only take 95% if the other option is we don't do anything and people can even commit stuff that doesn't even build let alone pass tests.
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by icefox 12y ago
I have used that (only running a few tests that match the diff) in the past to great success as the first level of testing that would occur on the users computer before committing code. It reduced the amount of build failures by 99% and te
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by icefox 12y ago
I am guessing the scheduling has become significantly more complex as the company has grown. The conveyor system in the Memphis facility alone looks to be an interesting problem. Is there stuff you want to have, but just don't have t
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by icefox 12y ago
Well if it truly mattered out there right now there is a company that has a void that they need filling and all they have to do is speak up and help fund a replacement.
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by icefox 12y ago
> The problem is one of content generation, as opposed to lack of tooling. I also have been pondering docs for many years and I agree with this statement. The core value I was going to build my solution around was by incorporating &#x2F
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by icefox 12y ago
Its Google's Blogger
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by icefox 12y ago
Why not just install a separate product that is dedicated to being a really good issue tracker?
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by icefox 12y ago
I see a lovely list of all sorts of features, but then I get to limitations: "Built-in access controls are not branch-based, they are repository-based." That falls under one of the three things that the Git solution must have or e
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by icefox 12y ago
Depends on how you look at it. Stash is dirt cheap compared to GitHub enterprise so if you think Stash is expensive you are not either of their target audience.
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by icefox 12y ago
I wrote up an essay of the three key things that every Git server should have, features that if are missing cause users to decided to look around for alternatives. And you are right, "Written in X" is not on that list. http:&#x2
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by icefox 12y ago
You are using perforce so just write a bash script called p4 that if you are doing a commit first does checks followed by the real commit and otherwise passed every command to the real p4.
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by icefox 12y ago
Why not have local pre-commit hooks? Even if you are not using git-p4 clobbering some sort of frontend tool to p4 submit that first runs make etc that everyone would use would be a big win for your team. http://benjamin-meyer.bl
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by icefox 12y ago
While both of those are nice, even doing something as dumb as having a git pre-commit hook that runs 'make' (or whatever is the equivalent) catches an amazing amount of errors.
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by icefox 12y ago
The only way I have been able to get away from Ben's law is to have an automatic system that does builds before code can get in. This can be server side, user side, pre-commit hooks, pull-request bots or anything that catches build br
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by icefox 12y ago
The reason why I keep watching what Pebble does is because for Apple and Google the watch could be just an accessory to their main event like ChromeCast and AppleTv. But for Pebble their watch and its capability is their bread and butter.
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by icefox 12y ago
How is Kiva after the Amazon acquisition?
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by icefox 12y ago
Reading the main page I am not sure what it is. Is it a chat application? What would be the elevator pitch? The story you would tell someone about how it is inevitable that all chat clients would do X and how openloopz does it today (tod
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by icefox 12y ago
But at least you can run git log and not have to wait minutes.
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by icefox 12y ago
What is annoying is when build artifacts are checked into source control systems along side of the source. There is very little way to exclude them or only check out the binaries, you can only have both. This happens all too often and I d
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by icefox 12y ago
> I have wanted to have the full history while offline a grand total of maybe about six times. I have probably run git init in a directory at least once a month to have full tracking capability without the expense of setting up a "s
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by icefox 12y ago
How do you plan on doing the manufacturing?
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Show HN: Stopped procrastinating and finished this little toy(milliondollardefrag.com)
2 points by icefox 12y ago|0 comments
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by icefox 12y ago
Prophesied the death of a new Google product is becoming this generations equivalent of "First Post". :)
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by icefox 12y ago
Gotta wonder what that won them in new business (you gonna invest with a group that had an add people were talking about more than a decade later?).
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by icefox 12y ago
Last I heard using your own domain on top of github had issues, has this been resolved?

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